All 15 Uses of
stifle
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Anyway he must decide on something, or else... "Or throw up life altogether!" he cried suddenly, in a frenzy—"accept one's lot humbly as it is, once for all and stifle everything in oneself, giving up all claim to activity, life and love!"†
Chpt 1.4 *stifle = suppress (prevent something or decrease its development)
- At last he felt cramped and stifled in the little yellow room that was like a cupboard or a box.†
Chpt 1.3
- This boulevard was never much frequented; and now, at two o'clock, in the stifling heat, it was quite deserted.†
Chpt 1.4
- Here there were no taverns, no stifling closeness, no stench.†
Chpt 1.5
- Trying to untie the string and turning to the window, to the light (all her windows were shut, in spite of the stifling heat), she left him altogether for some seconds and stood with her back to him.†
Chpt 1.7
- There, too, the heat was stifling and there was a sickening smell of fresh paint and stale oil from the newly decorated rooms.†
Chpt 2.1
- Hm...it's a pity there's no air here," he added, "it's stifling....It makes one's head dizzier than ever...and one's mind too..."†
Chpt 2.1
- It was as stifling as before, but he eagerly drank in the stinking, dusty town air.†
Chpt 2.6
- She kept her head, forgetting herself, biting her trembling lips and stifling the screams which were ready to break from her.†
Chpt 2.7
- But he had no sooner succeeded in assuming a serious air and muttering something when he suddenly glanced again as though accidentally at Razumihin, and could no longer control himself: his stifled laughter broke out the more irresistibly the more he tried to restrain it.†
Chpt 3.5
- Simply because a poor student, unhinged by poverty and hypochondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their insolence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U. presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty degrees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before, and all that on an empty stomach—he might well have a fainting fit!†
Chpt 3.6
- It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising.†
Chpt 6.1
- He felt oppressed and stifled and, as it were, ill at ease at having come here.†
Chpt 6.3
- It was a dark and stifling evening.†
Chpt 6.6
- Raskolnikov felt as though something had fallen on him and was stifling him.†
Chpt 6.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom
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(2)
(stifle as in: the heat is stifling) to make breathing difficult or impossible -- often from heat or humidity